His daughters have become two of Britain’s leading models, so Old Etonian businessman Roddy Campbell should be a proud man.

But he has been left counting the cost of their ‘wasted’ private education.

Roddy and his ex-wife, the architect Sophie Hicks, sent Burberry model Edie, 24, to St Paul’s Girls’ School, whose fees are £20,874 per year, and Mulberry mannequin Olympia, 18, to City of London School for Girls, which charges £14,976.

The total cost of their education is estimated at £250,000.

‘Daughter number two following daughter number one down the career path,’ Roddy moans, joking that he doesn’t know ‘why I spent so much on educating them, really’.

Clearly the genial old buffer takes the view, ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’, as he appeared in an advert for French fashion house Lanvin with his daughters last year.

Nigella’s latest victory over ex

Nigella Lawson, who claimed ex-husband Charles Saatchi subjected her to ‘intimate terrorism’, could teach the old misery a thing or two about business.

While the ‘domestic goddess’ reported profits of £260,000 at her TV company, Saatchi’s art firm has lost nearly £100,000 in the past year.

Accounts disclose a loss of £91,230 at Marchill Investments, which runs the Saatchi Gallery, with turnover falling from £4 million to £3.6 million.

Perhaps the former ad man was distracted.

It was during the accounting period that Saatchi was pictured with his hand round Nigella’s throat.

Ripped attire: Daniel Craig was spotted with a rip in his Tom Ford suit as he filmed scenes for the latest Bond

Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell has never admitted any responsibility for the ‘outing’ of Iraq war whistleblower Dr David Kelly.

Now Campbell brags about how much he is making providing ‘reputational management’ for dubious foreign plutocrats.

‘I love the fact that I get paid loads of money to travel round the world advising corporations and individuals about how to keep a good reputation,’ he boasts. Has the former Penthouse scribbler no shame?

Clegg is FAR too busy to meet Her Majesty

Too busy: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

Viewers of TV drama Wolf Hall know it was once fatal to snub a monarch, but Nick Clegg thinks nothing of treating the Queen with disdain.

The Deputy Prime Minister failed to turn up for a private audience with Her Majesty last Thursday and Tory Home Secretary Theresa May had to step in to take his place.

He was due to visit the Palace in his role as Lord President of the Privy Council, which advises the Queen. He will lose the title if the Liberal Democrats are kicked out of government after the General Election.

‘The Deputy Prime Minister was unable to attend this Privy Council meeting because of long-standing diary commitments,’ says the Lib Dem leader’s spokesman. He refuses to elaborate, but Clegg appeared in a TV interview with his mother that was broadcast the next day.

‘The Palace were notified in advance and were content for the Deputy Prime Minister not to attend.’

Clegg is something of a serial offender. After he missed four meetings with the Queen in 2013, an aide fumed: ‘The f****** fact is he can’t f****** be everywhere, but I know you are going to go off and write that the DPM has f****** snubbed the Queen once a-f******-gain.’

Trumpeted as a future Labour leader, Shadow Justice Minister Dan Jarvis was keen to boast about how he stood up to a mugger on the Underground last Monday.

But mystery surrounds the details. Former soldier Jarvis told a newspaper that he had warned the bottle-wielding thug trying to steal his wallet: ‘That’s not going to happen.’

He added: ‘I went and reported it to the police.’ Curiously, when I rang the British Transport Police last Thursday they had no record of the incident. Jarvis finally reported it the next day.